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JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Diplomat Togo finally gets Netherlands appointment

Kazuhiko Togo, former director general of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, was finally named Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands on Tuesday after weeks of waiting for a freeze on his transfer to be lifted, the ministry said.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

New condos up for sale declined in May

The number of new condominiums put up for sale in the Tokyo metropolitan area in May fell 4.7 percent from a year before to 6,799, the second straight monthly fall, a private research institute said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Ishihara to learn about ecotourism on Galapagos isles

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara left Narita airport Monday for the Galapagos Islands, where he will study methods of achieving symbiosis between conserving nature and tourism to apply to Tokyo's Ogasawara Islands.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

Shiokawa expects BOJ to conduct 'proper' action

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday he expects the Bank of Japan to respond appropriately to current economic conditions but monetary policy remains in the realm of the central bank.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

Toyota's latest hybrid halves production costs

Toyota Motor Corp. has developed a new fuel-saving hybrid system that will halve production costs for new vehicles from those of the Prius, the world's first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, the company announced Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

EU spur for yen will be brief

The yen may face downward pressure for some time.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 13, 2001

Hard-boiled blunderland and the end of the world

The Way of the Gun Rating: * * *Japanese title:Yukaihan Director:Christopher McQuarrie Running time: 119 minutes Language: EnglishNow showing at Marunouchi Piccadilly 2 and other theaters One elderly crime lord looks at his right-hand man and asks, "Do you believe in karma, Joe?" The tough old hit...
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

Hun Sen asks Koizumi to avoid cutting ODA

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday not to cut Japan's official development assistance to Cambodia when Tokyo reviews aid as part of its fiscal reforms, a Japanese official said.
COMMENTARY
Jun 13, 2001

A windfall for Nepal's Maoists

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JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Hiranuma hints at efforts to return U.S. to Kyoto pact

The industry minister suggested Tuesday that Japan will strive to convince the United States to rejoin the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, even going as far as considering revamping the international effort to fight global warming.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

Royal Dutch/Shell to join Iran deal

The Royal Dutch/Shell group plans to join a Japanese public-private consortium in an oil development project in Iran's biggest oil field, industry sources have revealed.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Lower House OKs Hansen's bill

The House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday to compensate current and former Hansen's disease patients who suffered under the government's segregation policy.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Airlines, World Cup seen pulling old foes closer

Japan and South Korea are used to referring to each other as the "nearest but most distant country" due to past troubles in their relationship.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Long road ahead for planned judicial reform

Following Tuesday's proposals by the Judicial Reform Council, which came after two years of strenuous deliberations, attention has shifted to how the government will introduce the sweeping changes in cooperation with judicial parties.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Sportscaster couple nab intruder

Sportscaster Kimiko Jinnai and her fiance captured a knife-wielding burglar early Tuesday in her condominium in Minato Ward, Tokyo, police said.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Major legal reform handed to Koizumi

The Judicial Reform Council on Tuesday submitted its final report to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, calling for an overhaul of the nation's legal system — the first of its kind under the postwar Constitution — to get in step with an era of rapid socioeconomic changes.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 13, 2001

And now, the greatest heroine on earth

The Invisible Circus Rating: * * * *Japanese title:Yukaihan Director: Adam Brooks Running time: 93 minutes Language: EnglishOpens July 7 at Yurakucho Subaru-za As we know from Julia Roberts, it's hard to be a heroine in Hollywood and stay that way. By heroine, I mean the classic, old-school types...
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Kajiyama left behind 400 million yen estate

Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama, who died last June at age 74, left behind about 400 million yen in taxable assets.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

'Happoshu' pumps up beer market

Japan's market for beer and "happoshu," the low-malt drink that is similar to beer, increased 2.9 percent in May from the previous year, thanks to good sales of the latter, according to data released Tuesday by the country's five major brewers.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Man in massacre harassed ex-wife, adoptive mother

OSAKA — The man arrested in Friday's fatal stabbing of eight children at an elementary school in Osaka Prefecture made a huge number of prank calls to his former wife, his former adoptive mother and a man in Hyogo Prefecture, police sources revealed Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

Low growth is the price of reforms

Japan will have to endure low economic growth over the next two to three years as the nation undergoes radical reforms, a key government economic panel said in the draft of a reform blueprint to be released later this month.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Bush not so dismissive of Kyoto pact: Kawaguchi

Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Tuesday that she does not interpret U.S. President George W. Bush's recent comments on climate change as an outright rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, and again called on the United States to return to the negotiating table.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 13, 2001

Lois Maffeo

Lois Maffeo is the grande dame of the next-wave feminist riot girl movement, icon to countless sensitive American girls (and boys, too).
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 13, 2001

Hawks batter Buffs, cruise to seventh straight win

Tadahito Iguchi went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs as the Pacific League-leading Fukuoka Daiei Hawks won their seventh straight game by defeating the Kintetsu Buffaloes 9-5 Tuesday at the Fukuoka Dome. Junji Hoshino (6-4) allowed seven hits over 61/3 innings for the win.
CULTURE / Art
Jun 13, 2001

Past and present meet in Vietnamese art

An exhibition of modern Vietnamese art is now being held at the Bunkamura Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jun 13, 2001

Lightning strikes in Isezaki's Bizen

I once asked the veteran Bizen potter Jun Isezaki why he makes certain shapes exactly the same as they were centuries ago. His reply was simple: "What works well need not be changed."
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

Major nonfinancial firms to earn 1.4% less in 2002: Nomura

The nation's major nonfinancial companies are expected to suffer a 1.4 percent drop in group pretax profits for the current business year ending March 31, 2002, after posting a hefty 33.5 percent rise in 2000, Nomura Securities Co. said in a report released Tuesday.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 13, 2001

'Poses': Rufus Wainwright

'Everything I like is a little bit stronger, a little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me." So croons Rufus Wainwright on "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk," the opening cut from his new album, "Poses."
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2001

Foreign rice growing on Japanese

Imports of foreign rice, which were only approved seven years ago, are increasing yearly, finding regular Japanese buyers and gaining in popularity amid an ethnic food boom.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
JR East to resume production of Suica cards as early as fall
Passengers enter Yurakucho station in Tokyo on Friday.
'I didn’t know if it was real': Yui Susaki suffers shock wrestling defeat
Yui Susaki reacts after losing in the opening round of the women's 50-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday.
Top envoys to Japan set to skip Nagasaki A-bomb ceremony after Israel not invited
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (left) attends a U.S.-Japan ministerial meeting on extended deterrence in Tokyo on July 28.
Japan needs foreign workers, but it might not want them to stay long
Ngun Nei Par, the general manager at Ginshotei Awashima in Numata, Gunma Prefecture, graduated from a university in Myanmar with a degree in geography.
No sumo tickets? No problem. Here are some other ways to take in the sport.
Wrestlers battle during the national women's championships in Osaka in 2018. Amateur sumo is a great way to experience the sport for tourists who are unable to get tickets to professional tournaments.
The definitive guide to Utagawa Hiroshige's masterwork is a feast for the eyes
Utagawa Hiroshige produced several highly successful series of landscape prints over the course of his career, including “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” — the largest collection of his career.
From the Bronx to Paris: Breaking set for its Olympic close-up
Shigekix, whose real name is Shigeyuki Nakarai, in action during the world championships in Leuven, Belgium, in September
Kishida looks to constitutional reform to win over LDP conservatives
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a meeting of a Liberal Democratic Party panel on constitutional reform in Tokyo on Wednesday.
In sleepy Chichibu, Japan's whisky landscape is quietly shifting
Founded in the early 2000s, Ichiro's Malt has since become a third pole in Japan's whisky world dominated by beverage giants.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

The students at Mitaka Municipal No. 7 Junior High School have access to various cooling devices for when they play sports.
Japan's extreme heat is causing a rethink of school sports
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